Arizona schools

Proposed federal legislation would expand school choice options for families to send their students to private schools or home educate them and the move could affect Arizona's current scholarship accounts.

State schools chief Tom Horne has no legal power to force school districts to use only "structured English immersion'' to teach the language to students who are not proficient, the Court of Appeals has decided.

Schools aren't responsible for keeping students safe when they're enroute to school -- or even just outside the school boundaries -- the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Hosted by Lou Gum, Arizona Edition, KAWC's news program, is our focus on the issues facing Arizona. Through interviews with local newsmakers, KAWC keeps you informed on issues in the region.

Arizona lawmakers are one vote away from adopting legislation to allow lawsuits against individual teachers by those who contend they are teaching or promoting antisemitism.

Saying that children need more God, the state House has approved allowing chaplains in public school classrooms.

Currently, more than 800 schools across Arizona are enrolled in the program, which equips each school with one albuterol inhaler and 10 spacers for administering the medication.

This month, an Arizona grand jury indicted two out-of-state residents for cheating the state's Empowerment Scholarship Account program out of more than $110,000. Now, critics of the program believe Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's latest decision could open the door to similar problems.

A state lawmaker and congressional candidate said Tuesday it is because of Christianity that other religions have been allowed into the United States.

Research at the Grand Canyon Institute looked at what the data shows about how the expansion of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts in Arizona is working, and where.